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One who contends with immortals lives a very short life. - [Immortality] Reproach is infinite, and knows no end. - [Reproach] Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind. - [Shame] Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. - [Silence] Such is the chance of war. - [Chance] Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. - [Sleep] The force of union conquers all. - [Union] The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. - [Age] The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. - [Disaster] The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. - [Words] The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. - [Ugliness] The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently, and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - [Wine and Spirits] To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. - [Words] Too much rest becomes a pain. - [Repose : Rest] Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. - [Laughter] Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. - [Obedience] Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove. - [Trust] Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. - [Wine and Spirits] Wisdom never lies. - [Wisdom] And woe succeeds woe. - Iliad (bk. XVI, l. 139), (Pope's translation) [Woe] There's a place in the middle of the wine-dark sea called Crete, a lovely, fruitful land surrounded by the sea. - Odyessey (bk. 19), Ian Johnston's translation [Crete] Long exercised in woes. - Odyssey (bk. I, l. 2), (Pope's translation) [Woe] Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which stated a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans. - The Iliad [Books (First Lines)] Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! - The Iliad, (Pope's translation) [Books (First Lines)] Achilles absent, was Achilles still. - The Iliad (bk. 22, l. 415), (Pope's translation) [Absence] Displaying page 2 of 10 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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